In Memoriam: Nelson Mandela
By Barbara F. Walter In the early 1990s, I took a class at the University of Chicago where we…
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Is UN Offensive Intervention in Congo a New Model of Peacekeeping?
By Lionel Beehner Good news is a rare commodity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). So skepticism is…
Captain Phillips vs. Reality
By Bridget Coggins [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzU3UJuV80w&w=560&h=315] There is a storm of controversy surrounding whether Captain Phillips the movie is consistent with Phillips’…
Government Violence in Sudan and a Headline That Drives Me Crazy
By Erica Chenoweth Sudan is experiencing a fresh outburst of protests and demonstrations, reportedly provoked by rising fuel…
The Strength of al-Shabab
By Joe Young The recent attack by al-Shabab on an up-scale shopping mall in Nairobi, which has claimed…
How Mugabe Holds Power
Guest post by Noorjit Sidhu This piece is the second of two written for Claire Adida’s UC San Diego…
Why Was CAR President Francois Bozizé Recently Deposed, and Why Now?
Guest post by Bob Bahr This piece was one of two written for Claire Adida’s UC San Diego undergraduate course “Contention…
UN’s New Intervention in DRC: Offensive or Inoffensive?
By Lionel Beehner With President Obama just wrapping up his trip to Africa, it’s worth pausing to consider the…
Comparative Xenophobia, Part II
By Steve Saideman I had intended to address the relationship between economic freedom and tolerance Max Fisher touched…
Comparative Xenophobia, Part I
By Steve Saideman Yesterday, the Washington Post put up this map based on World Values data and other…